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Raspberry Ridge (645 m elev. gain)

Raspberry Ridge Fire Lookout August 1st, 9:45 am, early start to avoid the hottest part of a hot day.

View to NE, the Calgary skyline is apparently visible from here on a clear day.

Mount Head and Holy Cross Mountain to the north.

Fording River Pass to the NW with Baril Peak and Mount Bolton at right.

White Camas / Mountain Death Camas on ridge.

Rough-leaved Alumroot on ridge.

White / Richardson’s Geranium in a boggy area along the trail.

False Dandelion along the trail.

Brown-eyed Susan / Wild Gaillardia along the trail.

Purple Fleabane along the trail.

Rocky Mountain Goldenrod along the trail.

Woolly Packera along the ridge.

Common (or other type of) Stonecrop near the ridge top.

Type of Saxifrage along the ridge.

Umbrella Plant / Wild Buckwheat near the ridge.

Cow Parsnip along the trail.

Stanley Glacier Trail (615 m elev. gain)

Kona cooling off at high point of Stanley Glacier trail loop at end of July.

View of Mt. Whymper, a nice scramble peak, across the Vermilion River Valley. (Edward Whymper made the ill-fated first ascent of the Matterhorn and wrote the classic “Scrambles Amongst the Alps”.)

Close-up of lower Stanley Glacier.

View of North Face of Mt. Stanley and glacier from Mt. Whymper across the Vermilion River valley in 2004.

View down to clump of trees at high point of Stanley Glacier trail from summit of Stanley 15 years earlier.

Waterfall along trail.

Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus along Stanley Glacier trail.

Tall White Bog Orchid / Fragrant White Orchid along trail.

Twinflower (maybe) along the trail.

White Camas / Mountain Death Camas along trail.

Pearly Everlasting along trail.

Spotted Saxifrage along trail.

Shrubby Cinquefoil along trail.

Common Pink Wintergreen (maybe) along trail.

Yellow Columbine along trail.

Type of Paintbrush (maybe) along trail.

White Dryad / White Mountain Avens along trail.

Common Yarrow / Milfoil along trail.

Bunchberry / Dwarf Dogwood (maybe) along trail.

Common Fireweed growing in the burn area along the trail.

Yellow Hedysarum, a favourite of Grizzly bears, along the trail.

Birchleaf Spiraea / White Meadowsweet along the trail.

Tall Purple Fleabane / Mountain Erigeron along the trail.

Bracted Lousewort / Woody Betony along the trail.

Golden Fleabane along the trail.

Mt. Carthew (1,100 m elev. gain)

Kona (10 years) on Mt. Carthew in late-July with one of the three Carthew lakes and Mt. Alderson behind.

View back down to starting point at Cameron Lake from near summit.

View of ridge to summit (at right) from near high point of Carthew Lakes hiking trail.

Cas (3 years) cooling off on way up Carthew.

Sandberg’s Wild Parsley (confirmed by Alberta Native Wildflowers FB Group) on Carthew ridge.

Alpine Cinquefoil on summit ridge, Cameron Lake and parking lot below.

Sky Pilot / Skunkweed on Carthew ridge. Cameron Lake and trailhead below.

Mix of blue Alpine Forget-Me-Not, yellow Cinquefoil of some type, and white Alpine Sandwort / Twinflower Stitchwort (per Alberta Native Wildflowers FB Group).

Silver-leafed Scorpionweed on Carthew Lakes trail.

Cow Parsnip along Carthew Lakes trail.

Umbrella Plant / Wild Buckwheat (confirmed by Alberta Native Wildflowers FB group) on Carthew Lakes trail south-facing scree slope.

Beargrass along Carthew trail in the 2017 Waterton Forest Fire burn.

Birchleaf Spirea on trail above Cameron Lake.

Red Monkey Flower on wet trail above Cameron Lake.

Mt. St. Piran (900 m elev. gain)

Kona finding a cool spot 8:30 am in late July on Mt. St. Piran slopes, Mt. Lefroy behind, with The Mitre left of centre.

View of Lake Louise with the Beehive lookout at upper left.

View of Lipalian and Unity peaks (Kona was on them a few days ago) beyond Lake Agnes after doing the traverse of St. Piran, descending via the Piran / Niblock col.